Margarete Buber-Neumann

Margarete Buber-Neumann
Born
Margarete Thüring

(1901-10-21)21 October 1901
Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died6 November 1989(1989-11-06) (aged 88)
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Other names
  • Grete Buber
  • Greta Buber-Neumann
  • Margarete Buber
  • Margaret Buber Neumann
CitizenshipWest Germany
OccupationWriter
Years active1921–1978
Known forWitness to concentration camps in Nazi Germany and Stalinist USSR during WWII
Notable workUnder Two Dictators (1949)
Political partyKPD (1926-1937), CDU (1975-1988)
Spouse(s)Rafael Buber, Helmuth Faust
PartnerHeinz Neumann
ChildrenBarbara Goldschmidt and Judith Buber Agassi
AwardsBundesverdienstkreuz (1980)

Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, which turned her into a staunch anti-communist, she wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators. It begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after being handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II. She was also known for having testified in the so-called "trial of the century" about the Kravchenko Affair in France.[1] In 1980, Buber-Neumann was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2]

  1. ^ Buber-Neumann, Margarete (1949). Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler. Gollancz. pp. xi (1935), 4 (husband's arrest), 112 (Karaganda), 260–261 (Siemens), 277–286 (Milena), 300–314 (1945). Retrieved 11 May 2018.
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